MedAptus Customers Capitalizing on P4P Incentives via Intelligent Charge Capture

Intuitive Module Design Means No Workflow Adjustment or Additional
Administrative Overhead

BOSTON, July 14 /PRNewswire/ -- MedAptus(R), market leader for charge capture
technologies, today announced enthusiastic adoption of its P4P component
across the company's Professional Intelligent Charge Capture user-base.
MedAptus P4P is widely used for capture of quality measure data for the
Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) program, as well as localized
payer efforts.

MedAptus' powerful, yet easy-to-use, technologies are practice-proven to
maximize revenue, enhance compliance efforts and increase billing process
transparency. In addition to both mobile and desktop-based solutions for
physician professional charge capture, the company also offers the industry's
only automation for the capture and management of outpatient facility charges
as well as a dedicated infusion charge capture product enjoying tremendous
success at top-ranked cancer centers.

MedAptus P4P is embedded within all of the various software editions that
belong to the company's Professional Intelligent Charge Capture solution
suite, eliminating the need for creation of separate processes for data
collection. The MedAptus approach utilizes real-time alerts to prompt
clinician-users to document required data elements. Only common clinical terms
are presented to the user, for measures specific to his or her specialty,
saving valuable time -- which customers such as Hawthorn Medical Associates
truly appreciate.

"Our physicians really enjoy being able to utilize MedAptus to document their
PQRI measures -- having data collection embedded into practice workflow means
time-strapped providers don't have to think about whether or not an encounter
is eligible for incentive. Clearly, commercial contracts are headed towards
more pay-for-performance requirements, so being able to orient our doctors
now, especially with such an intuitive tool, will only benefit them more in
the future," said Matthew Nivison, director of administrative services at
Hawthorn Medical Associates.

Dartmouth, Massachusetts-based Hawthorn Medical, a large multi-specialty
practice and affiliate of Partners Community Healthcare, Inc. and Partners
HealthCare System, first adopted MedAptus' Practice Plus Edition for web-based
charge capture in 2006. Beyond reaping efficiency benefits stemming from P4P,
the group's clinician-users also enjoy seamless system integration between
MedAptus and their electronic records system, the Partners HealthCare
Longitudinal Medical Record (LMR). A single sign-on and preserved patient
context allow providers to complete charging and charting tasks expeditiously.

"As a practicing physician, I experience the ever-increasing administrative
and regulatory challenges firsthand so I know how crucial it is to be armed
with time-neutral tools that fit within clinical workflow. We designed our P4P
module to make it simple for our users to capitalize on available incentive
programs -- yet one more way that MedAptus drives financial benefit," noted
David Delaney, MD, MedAptus' chief medical officer. "Payers are rapidly moving
toward basing at least a part of payment on performance. While that is the
right strategy, differing sets of metrics and measures can make it difficult
for provider groups to operationalize participation. This is precisely why
MedAptus P4P epitomizes leveraging technology: to manage and simplify
complexity behind the scenes, letting doctors maintain focus on providing
quality care."

About MedAptus

MedAptus is the Gold Standard in the healthcare revenue cycle for effective
charge management, compliance and workflow efficiency. With the most powerful,
yet easy-to-use, Intelligent Charge Capture technologies available, we enjoy
enterprise-wide adoption at some of the nation's most prestigious healthcare
organizations. Our portfolio of full-scale Professional and Facility offerings
is practice-proven to increase revenue, re-engineer archaic processes, enhance
EMR investments and save busy providers valuable time. For more information,
visit http://www.medaptus.com or call 617.896.4000.
MedAptus Contact:

Jennifer Crowley
p. 617.896.4030
jcrowley@medaptus.com

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SOURCE MedAptus

Jennifer Crowley of MedAptus, +1-617-896-4030, jcrowley@medaptus.com